Mirror Case with Flowers in Diaper Pattern
1745–1755
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, metallic particles, and lacquer over metallic layer on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- frame: 11.2 × 8.6 × 0.9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 3/8 × 3/8 in.) lid: 9.7 × 7.2 × 0.3 cm (3 13/16 × 2 13/16 × 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Mirror
About
Rectangular mirror case with fitted lid. The outer faces are decorated with a diaper-patterned repeat of flowers. On the inner face of the lid, a three-quarter length portrait of a young woman holding a flower is set within a lobed ogival medallion.